Off Topic – Best Card Trick Ever!
March 6th, 2010
Discount Opportunities for Car Clubs, Concours, Auto Dealers, Detailers, Storage Facilities
February 18th, 2010
In an effort to increase the exposure and thank automobile enthusiasts for their efforts, Touchless Car Cover invites car clubs, collector car auctions, concours d’elegance organizers, car storage facilities, etc. to contact Touchless Car Cover to create a program tailored to each entities needs. We are willing to offer an extremely low price to increase the awareness of the Touchless Car Cover.
CAR CLUBS
Opportunities include special discounts for registered members of car clubs. Or perhaps, the car club can create a special offer to include a Touchless Car Cover with a new membership. A Touchless Car Cover would also make a great raffle item, contest prize or rally trophy.
COLLECTOR CAR STORAGE
Increase revenue by offering a Touchless Car Cover to customers that sign up for new storage or renew their contracts. Your facility could also rent a Touchless Car Cover as another revenue source.
COLLECTOR CAR AUCTIONS
Offer your buyers and/or consigners a special offer on a Touchless Car Cover. A buyer is always eager to protect their new investment. You might consider giving one to a special client that buys and/or sells with your company often.
CAR DEALERS
Set your dealership apart from others by offering what your competition can’t. Imagine offering a terrific “thank you” gift to your buyers that other dealerships can’t match. A new car buyer wants nothing more than to protect their new car in any way that they can. Offer the Touchless Car Cover as a prize in a drawing for taking a test drive.
CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE
The Touchless Car Cover would make a terrific raffle prize, Best of Show award or auction item. In each case, your exhibitors and attendees would be thrilled to be able to have this revolutionary car cover design.
AUTO DETAILER
Add the Touchless Car Cover to your offerings. It will give you the opportunity to reap additional profits and set your company apart from other detailers in your area.
Whether you are the own a automobile dealership, a client of a car storage facility or the President of Porsche Club of America, we encourage you to contact us and let us tailor a program to fit the needs and wants of your membership or customers. We can assure you a program that will be a win-win for all parties.
Touchless Car Cover can seen on our website – www.TouchlessCarCover.com
Touchless Car Cover now a member of SEMA
January 29th, 2010
Touchless Car Cover Joins SEMA
In an effort to expand our business, Touchless Car Cover has joined SEMA. It is our intention to build a strong network of dealers in both the United States as well as International markets. In fact, over 60% of our Touchless Car Covers have been shipped outside of the United States. If you or someone you know might have an interest in becoming a dealer, please contact us.
La Dolce Vita Automobili Event Will Not Host 2010 Monterey Car Week Event
January 25th, 2010
Auburn, WA – January 25, 2010 La Dolce Vita Automobili announced today that there are no future plans to host a second event at Black Horse Golf Course in 2010. Event Co-Chair Kerry McMullen shared, “We are so grateful for the support Alfa’s ARA & Delta Sierra, Lancia Club, Maserati Club International, The Maserati Club and all other car clubs and car owners gave us in 2009. Additionally we would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to Cats Exotics, and Driven Exotics as our Founding Sponsors responsible for the great Lamborghini showing. We had an excellent venue at Black Horse with sprawling fairways and beautiful trees. Those who participated in the event had a wonderful time. We couldn’t have delivered an event of this nature without the support of the car owners, sponsors and vendors, spectators, volunteers and Media and we thank everyone who helped the event become a reality.”
McMullen, who is also President of Maserati Club International explains, “We started LDV to give the Italian car community a place to display their cars on grass after Concorso Italiano was relocated to an airport. We also sought out a home for our club’s Maserati Days celebration that had greater ambiance and atmosphere than tarmac and we found that in Black Horse Golf Course. By hosting the La Dolce Vita Automobili event last year, the participating car owners, sponsors and vendors made a powerful statement to the Concours car community that location and ambiance are both key to attracting classic and exotic car owners to this type of event.”
He went on to say, “While we are flattered that many of our sponsors and participants hoped for a second event and would be willing to support us, there is no longer a compelling need to hold LDV now that Concorso Italiano has re-established itself on the greens of a golf course, placing the focus back on the cars where it belongs. Maserati Club International and The Maserati Club look forward to jointly promoting our time in Monterey this year and to once again make Concorso Italiano part of those plans.”
More: La Dolce Vita Automobili at Black Horse: http://www.montereybayconcours.com/
Maserati Club International: http://www.maseratinet.com
About Maserati Club International
Established in 1976, Maserati Club International (MCI) is one of the world’s largest Maserati Clubs with Maserati owners and enthusiasts from 39 countries in its ranks. MCI is a service-oriented club, professionally staffed and equipped with the resources to meet just about any Maserati-related need. The club has published close to 100 issues of Viale Ciro Menotti including several beautiful coffee table annuals. The high-gloss magazine is filled with timeless, informative and interesting information relating to Maserati cars and the Maserati lifestyle. Topics include step-by-step Maserati technical information, news coverage, art, entertainment and more.
For years, Maserati Club International and The Maserati Club, two separate organizations, have worked to keep the Maserati Community informed, entertained and together to preserve the colorful history that is “Maserati”. MCI holds a Maserati Days gathering each August during the famed Monterey Car Week that attracts tens of thousands of car enthusiasts to the area from around the world. Participants enjoy a series of dinners, drives and parties at various locations on the Monterey Peninsula.
Media Contact Cindy A. Meitle CAR PR USA (480) 277-1864 cindy@carprusa.com
Major Damage Due to Storm at Russo & Steele Collector Car Auction
January 22nd, 2010
Damaged Russo & Steele Collector Car Auction Tent
High winds and heavy rains disrupted the Russo-Steele and Barrett-Jackson auctions in Scottsdale Thursday evening, with the biggest impact on Russo-Steele when one of its outdoor tents was uprooted and swept onto the adjacent Loop 101 freeway, blocking eastbound traffic lanes for hours and forcing the temporary closure of the collector car auction.
UPDATE SAT JAN. 23/2010 -
Russo and Steele Press Release
Message from Drew @ breakfast briefing
RUSSO & STEELE AUCTION REOPENS TOMORROW @ 8 AM!
Severe winds at the rain-soaked Scottsdale site collapsed the 800-foot-long tents where the valuable collector cars were being held, wrecking some of them and exposing the rest to a driving rainstorm.
One of the huge tents tore away from its buckled support structure and flew about 100 yards onto the nearby Loop 101 freeway. Traffic was snarled for hours.
Collector-car owners were reportedly trying to get on site Thursday night to assess the damage. One expensive car was reportedly impaled by a metal beam from the tent supports. There were no reported injuries from the incident.
CLICK News Video from Channel 3 in Scottsdale
CLICK Video of the tent collapsing
CLICK Video of cranes cleaning up collapsed tents
CLICK Interview with Drew of Russo & Steele
CLICK Drive by view of the aftermath
CLICK Video: Overhead view of damaged cars
There was no word Thursday evening whether any sort of auction would be held by Russo and Steele, though it seemed doubtful. This year’s auction, owned by Drew and Josephine Alcazar of Phoenix, would have marked the event’s 10th anniversary. The storm is expected to lessen, but rain is expected to continue through the day tomorrow and into Saturday morning. Pretty tough to auction cars that have been sitting outside exposed to this type of weather. Our sympathies to Drew Alcazar and all the car owners whose vehicles have sustained damage.
Our sympathies go out to Drew and Josephine.
Broken rear window and roof damage
More photos HERE Russo and Steele damage photos
SLIDE SHOW of damaged vehicles Damaged Vehicles
CLICK Drew of Russo & Steele comments on moving forward
Photo below courtesy of Charles Rollins of Bench Racing. More photos courtesy of Bench Racing 
Update from Russo and Steele website
UPDATE 1/22/10 4:00 PST Russo and Steele announced late Friday morning that owners would not be allowed to inspect their cars until at least Saturday morning because the Scottsdale fire marshal has not declared the auction site safe.
Drew and Josephine Alcazar, Russo and Steele owners, hoped to resume the auction Saturday, but there was still a lot of cleanup to do.
“By no stretch of the imagination are we down for the count,” Drew Alcazar said Friday as tent crews worked to clear away the damaged tents.
Public safety officials cleared out people from Russo and Steele’s two display tents late Thursday when the high winds threatened the structures, and the auction continued in the main tent, Josephine Alcazar said.
High winds lifted the north tent high off the ground about 6:15 p.m. and it crashed down on the freeway east of Scottsdale Road, she said.
Russo and Steele shut down the auction and cleared the site. The south tent then blew over, but did not go onto the roadway.
Chuck Favour, Hagerty Insurance vice president of claims, said his company has insured about 125 of the cars at Russo and Steele.
After viewing the auction site from the Loop 101, he estimated that as many as half the 600 cars on the lot were damaged with dents and scratches from tent poles and debris.
Among the cars that were stranded on the site Friday was a 1948 Tucker convertible that could draw bids of more than $1 million.
Russo and Steele Tents Before Damage
CLICK - Chubb Insurance commenting on damage at Russo & Steele
Update 1/23/10
Excerpt from the Russo and Steele website:
Dear Friends and valued Sellers,
As a result of the severe storm that hit Scottsdale on Thursday evening, the Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auction has been temporarily closed due to sustained wind damage.
I would first like to thank you for your kind patience as we work with the City of Scottsdale Officials to inspect the area and allow us to re-open. I clearly realize how difficult it has been to wait along with us to finally get on site. The safety of our clients is of utmost importance and we are working diligently to re-open and accommodate your needs.
Rest of the letter from Drew click HERE
UPDATE – 1/23/2010 – Russo and Steele Collector Car Auction opens Sunday 1/24/2010 at 8:00 AM.
Severe Weather Cancels Plans to Attend Collector Car Auctions in Scottsdale
January 19th, 2010
Executives of Touchless Car Cover cancelled plans to attend the various collector car auctions in Scottsdale and Phoenix due to severe weather in Southern California. Monday’s severe weather delayed travel plans and Tuesday’s tornado in Costa Mesa sealed the decision.
The plan called for the Touchless Car Cover enclosed trailer to haul a MINI Clubman John Cooper Works to various sites around the collector car auctions. Our schedule included appearances at Barrett-Jackson, Gooding & Company, RM Auctions and Russo & Steele. However, high winds, torrential down pours and flooding prevented departure on Monday afternoon.
Weather forecasts for the Scottsdale and Phoenix areas were not much better for the rest of the week.
As a consolation for collector car owners, buyers and enthusiasts, Touchless Car Cover will offer FREE shipping on an order through January 30. Please use coupon code “SCOTTSDALE” during checkout at www.TouchlessCarCover.com
TCC featured in England’s Classic & Sports Car magazine
December 19th, 2009
Porsche Market Letter Debuts New Website
November 15th, 2009
Our friends at PML have launched a new website and blog. It looks great and is worth a look.
Touchless Car Cover @ Ventura Porsche Gathering
October 9th, 2009
Thom Kuby is our newest dealer of the Touchless Car Cover. Porsche enthusiasts will know Thom as the publisher of the Porsche Market Letter. Thom had a terrific response to the Touchless Car Cover at The Ventura Show – German Auto Fest. No doubt the 1974 Carrera Targa in the factory green color caught some attention too.